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Washed up 90s Hercules Blacksplaining what it means to be black (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Tankie" started as a general pejorative shorthand for "in the tank."

MAGAs are tankies. Evangelicals are tankies. Every extremist is a tankie.

It's just we generally only see the communist authoritarian tankies on here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

That may be what you mean, that isn't what everyone else means.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That is such an obviously bullshit etymology that I'm going to accuse you of making it up to intentionally muddy the water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I was wrong in that it has been used to describe right wing extremists but it does originate with the idea that these people would happily hop in a tank and crush any dissent. I realize I was very vague

In my mind, it made sense that anyone willing to use force (eg, a tank) to impose their violent ideology is a tankie.